DOCUMENTATION

Everything, organised by the job you're doing

Connect an assistant to your Odoo, decide exactly what it may touch, host it yourself, migrate onto it, and control who inside the company sees what. Start with the product you installed, or jump to the task.

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AI MCP · $199 once

Connect Claude or ChatGPT to Odoo

The connector itself: install it, copy one URL, and paste it into your assistant. Every request runs as the signed-in Odoo user, read-only until you say otherwise.

AI MCP + AI DASHBOARDS

The AI apps, together

What the MCP server and AI Dashboards do, and how dashboards get built by asking the assistant you already connected.

ACCESS MANAGER PRO

Access control, enforced server-side

Record and field-level permissions without writing XML — and enforced underneath the API, not just hidden in the interface.

SHOPIFY BISYNC

Two-way Shopify sync

Products, inventory, orders and customers moving both directions, with payout reconciliation.

SETUP

Connect your assistant

One server URL works for every client below — the protocol is the same. Pick the one you actually use.

Claude

Settings → Connectors, paste the URL, sign in with your Odoo login.

ChatGPT

Connectors under Developer Mode. Plan requirements explained.

Gemini

Streamable HTTP and the allowed_tools allow-list.

Claude Desktop

The desktop app rather than the web client.

Cursor

One-click install into the editor.

Claude Code

Driving Odoo from the terminal.

CONCEPTS

What MCP actually is

What is Odoo MCP?

The protocol, in plain terms, and what it changes about connecting AI to an ERP.

How to use MCP with Odoo

From first connection to the questions people actually ask on day one.

MCP vs the JSON-2 API

When you want a tool interface and when you want a raw API.

GOVERNANCE

Deciding what the AI may touch

The default scope is read-only. Everything here is about widening it deliberately rather than by accident.

The four gates

OAuth consent, your governance scope, the per-model matrix, and the user's own Odoo rights.

Running read-only

What a read-only assistant can and cannot do, and when to widen.

Security model

Where the boundaries are enforced, and what the audit trail records.

Whose credentials does it use?

Why a connector should never have its own ERP login — and what running as the user costs.

Row caps and truncated answers

For anyone building an MCP server: why a capped result becomes a confidently wrong answer.

When the install succeeds but nothing works

Five post-install failures, none of which raised an error.

HOSTING

Install, host and migrate

Your assistant has to be able to reach your Odoo over public HTTPS. Which hosting you are on decides whether you can install a module at all.

Self-hosted

Running MCP inside Odoo, which skips the external-API question entirely.

Odoo Online

Plan limits, the Custom-plan API gate, and what Online will not let you install.

Odoo.sh

Git-based hosting, and the different path for custom modules.

Install Odoo 19 Community

A clean install from scratch.

Docker install

Odoo and Postgres in containers.

Migrate off Odoo Online

Moving a live database onto your own server.

Backup and restore

Database and filestore, and why both have to travel together.

Let us deploy it

One-click provisioning onto a server we manage, preconfigured for your trade.

ACCESS CONTROL

Who inside the company sees what

This is the layer underneath everything above — an assistant can never exceed the permissions of the person using it, so these are the permissions that decide the ceiling.